2020/10/26 by Richard Savery, Savery, Richard, Gil Weinberg +1
Computer Science · Engineering · #Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS) #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Human Motion and Animation #Music Technology and Sound Studies #Music and Audio Processing #Sound (cs.SD) #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2011.07953
openalex publication_date 2020/10/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Composing for a film requires developing an understanding of the film, its characters and the film aesthetic choices made by the director. We propose using existing visual analysis systems as a core technology for film music generation. We extract film features including main characters and their emotions to develop a computer understanding of the film's narrative arc. This arc is combined with visually analyzed director aesthetic choices including pacing and levels of movement. Two systems are presented, the first using a robotic film composer and marimbist to generate film scores in real-time performance. The second software-based system builds on the results from the robot film composer to create narrative driven film scores.